The images are impressive. A passenger plane crashed on the A4 motorway on Sunday afternoon in Seine-et-Marne. No cars were affected by the fall but the three passengers on the plane died. What happened ? Who is in charge of the investigation? 20 Minutes takes stock of this terrible accident.
What happened ?
A single-engine plane “Cesena 172 type (…)” crashed on the A4 motorway. The accident occurred around 3:45 p.m. in the town of Noisiel (Seine-et-Marne) according to a police source. The machine crashed into the central reservation of the highway, after hitting a high-voltage line, the Meaux gendarmerie told AFP.
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The accident occurred less than an hour after takeoff from the Lognes-Emerainville aerodrome. “The three people on board, two men and a woman, died,” said Meaux prosecutor Jean-Baptiste Bladier.
Who were the passengers?
“The pilot, born in 1989, had held a pilot’s license since 2023 and had, a priori, a little more than 100 hours of flight time to his credit,” added the prosecutor. For the moment, little information has filtered out about the two other passengers.
Who is in charge of the investigation?
The air transport gendarmerie is in charge of the investigation into the involuntary manslaughter, while the Bureau of Investigation and Analysis for Civil Aviation Safety (BEA) has also opened an administrative investigation.
This is the second crash of a passenger plane in a year from the Lognes-Emerainville aerodrome, recalls The Parisian. Almost exactly a year ago, a tourist plane crashed into a crash barrier on the Francilienne after a failed landing. Fortunately, only the pilot was slightly injured.
“Concerning leisure civil aviation, most accidents are due to human error. The equipment is rarely called into question,” indicated in our columns Colonel Laurent Chartier, commander of the research section of the air transport gendarmerie.
Before continuing: “Even qualified pilots can, on a given day, have a poor appreciation of the power of their aircraft. The cause is overloading the device, poor load distribution, poor fuel management in the device. »
